Tell me about the auxiliaries and installations you'd like to see in the next deck. Can be as many or as few suggestions as you want, from any nation you want
To you from failing hands we throw the torch be yours to hold it high. -In Flanders Fields. John McCrea
With this list I should be right for at least one! LoL!
AUXILIARIES
Australia Aux HMAS Platypus Aux HMAS Manoora/Westralia/ Aux Crusiers or LSI Aux HMAS Bathurst (Minesweeper)
Canada Aux HMCS Prince Robert (AMC) Aux HMCS Wallaceburg
France Aux Chamois Class (Minesweeper) Aux Elan Class (Minesweeper) Aux X Class (12 ships AMC: Aramis, Ville d'Oran, Quercy, Barfleur... They all have nearly the same armament) Aux Le Gladiateur Netlayer Aux MV Languedoc Merchant ship Aux Lot(Oiler)
Netherland Aux AMC Gadila MS Bantam merchant ship
New Zealand Aux HMNZS Monowai
Poland Aux SS Czar
UK Aux RFA Gray Ranger (Ranger class tanker) Aux HMS Protector Netlayer Aux LST Aux Ocean Class Merchant ship Aux CAM class merchant ships Aux North Sands class merchant ships Aux Abbeydale Class (Oiler)
USA Aux USS Hunter-Liggett (Harris class) APA Transport Aux USS Swift (Auk class minesweeper) Aux C-1 or C-2 class merchant ships Aux Hog Island class merchant ships (Can also stand for Brazil) Aux T2 or T3 Class (Oiler)
USSR Aux Iset Netlayer Aux T-401 Tral (Pr.3 Class Minesweeper) Aux Belorussia-class cargo ships
Sweden Aux Dristigheten (Seaplane carrier) Aux Clas Fleming Aux Arholma Class (Minesweeper) Aux SS Empire Bell merchant ship
Germany Aux Altmark (Nordmark Class) Aux HSK "Class" (Kormoran relatives) Aux Hans Rolshoven (Seplane Tender) Aux Dithmarschen (Nordmark Sister Dithmarschen Class)
Italy Aux Fasana class minelayer/minesweeper Aux Olterra (undercover base for manned torpedoes)
Japan Aux Shinsu Maru LSD Aux Nigtsu Maru Aux Hatsutaka Class Netlayer Aux Mizuho (Seaplane tender) Aux Nisshin (Seaplane tender) Aux W1 Class (Minesweeper) Aux W7 Class (Minesweeper) Aux Asama Maru (Troop transport) Aux Hakone Maru class transport AP Aux Type 2A Aux T-103 LSD
Romania Aux Regele Carol I Aux Dacia Aux Aurora (Minelayer)
INSTALLATIONS AA Battery (Generic Stack with other installations) 88mm Batteries (German Light Shore Artillery and AA Stack with other installations) Heavy Shore Battery (Generic campaign 283mm or more Stack with other installations) Medium Shore Battery (Generic campaign 150-240mm Stack with other installations) Light Shore Battery (Generic campaign 75-140mm Stack with other installations) U-Boat Pens (French and German)
Named Coastal Artillery & Fortifications Fan Bay Battery (UK) South Foreland Battery (UK) Wanstone Battery (UK) Ness Battery (UK) Fort Siloso (UK) Hobart coastal defences (UK) Manila and Subic Bays (USA) Fort Drum (El Fraile Island) (USA) Fort Mills (USA) Singapore Battery (UK) Hanstholm fortress (GER) Batterie Vara (GER) Siegfried Battery (GER) Todt Battery (GER) Battery Lothringen (GER Atlantik Wall) Fort Pearce (AUS) Coastal battery Tirpitz near Constanța, Romania (GER) Swedish Coastal Artillery (SWE)
As discussed during last deck, I would like to see more Atlantic Wall Installations for KM - particularly the named ones. Todt and others had interesting features that made them unique. I know that France also could have some form of installation - I forget what ships dueled with it, but I want to say Massachusetts... Anything with Malta? Italy?
The FAS is the only one I see used so would an enlarged version of that work?
Otherwise the Atlantic wall ability on the new cards seems set up for another type. Although I wouldn't have been inclined towards another but for that ability, which seems a potential set up for that.
Or I'd be happy without an installation altogether, as like I say I only see the one often used and the claim for spots is as high as ever with neutrals etc. getting an increase.
HMS Agamemnon (Minelayer), HMS Ladybird (Improved 6" gunboat), HMS Li Wo (Unique VC action), HMS Medway (Described as probably the most important ship in the med when sunk), HMS Springbank (CAM ship), HMS Fidelity.
UK still has no fleet support in terms of fleet oilers or sub tender ships like other big nations and no Hurricat! armed type.
"That's right son, join the navy. Get behind a bloody big gun and knock the hell out of somebody"
"We went out, got our arses kicked, then came back again"
I will not duplicate the good suggestions above but add these
I would prefer to see auxiliary ships over installations as there are so many ships that could be done in this category. The convoy game needs something and I do not know what exactly it is to revise it but some diversity in pieces might mix things up or making the convoy participants more “active’ in some way with SAs.
However if an installation was done my choice would be a radar installation that could be used for Atlantic or Pearl Harbour set ups.
For ships:
Canada: SS Beaverford with some type of evades or hard to hit SA would be a nice axillary paring for Jervis Bay and the story of convoy HX-84.
Canada: HMCS Lady Nelson - Hospital ship would be a good option as only one of two “Lady Ships” to survive the war and she survived a torpedoing by U161.
Canada: the oil tanker Catabolite she was captured by the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran and was subsequently turned into a German tanker and later converted to blockade runner "Sudetenland".
USA: USS Bunch (DE-694) as APD-79 as a high speed transport as the convey game needs something and maybe it is an auxiliary with better speed.
Germany; could get the Kulmerland a supply ship used to supply German raiders which could boost auxiliaries and raiders.
British: HMS Palomares which was an Anti-aircraft Artillery ship and eventually a Fighter Direction Ship or to provide a seagoing anti-aircraft auxiliary with radar as an SA.
Last Edit: Mar 30, 2018 15:05:20 GMT by RH: Typo fixed